Fire atlas
Fires in France
Satellite-detected fires in France right now, plus five years of NASA FIRMS archive: 42,272 detections, 14,280 distinct fires, season and worst years by region.
Fires burning now in France
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Window: last 24 hours, NASA FIRMS
See it on the mapFive years of archive
2020 to 2026 · through 2026-07-31
The years up to 2024 come from NASA’s finalized yearly archives. What follows, through 2026-07-31, comes from its near-real-time interface: 2026 is therefore a partial year, and its most recent weeks have not yet received the classification that removes volcanoes, flares and industrial sources. A very recent fire counts here, with a little more noise around it.
- Satellite detections
- 42,272
- Distinct fires
- 14,280
- Busiest month
- July
- Worst year
- 2026
- Strongest signal
- 2,764 MW
- Seen at night
- 37.1%
- Detections per 1,000 km²
- 66.3
Detections per year
| Year | Detections |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 4,068 |
| 2021 | 4,893 |
| 2022 | 9,972 |
| 2023 | 4,384 |
| 2024 | 2,780 |
| 2025 | 4,913 |
| 2026 | 11,262 |
The season
Share of detections by month, over the five years together.
| Month | Detections |
|---|---|
| Jan | 1,209 |
| Feb | 5,890 |
| Mar | 4,472 |
| Apr | 3,606 |
| May | 1,390 |
| Jun | 2,461 |
| Jul | 12,790 |
| Aug | 4,998 |
| Sep | 2,769 |
| Oct | 1,850 |
| Nov | 530 |
| Dec | 307 |
The most affected areas
| Area | Detections |
|---|---|
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 16,881 |
| Occitanie | 7,369 |
| Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur | 4,604 |
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 2,841 |
| Corsica | 1,853 |
| Grand Est | 1,671 |
| Hauts-de-France | 1,621 |
| Centre — Val de Loire | 1,252 |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | 1,174 |
| Pays de la Loire | 994 |
| Normandie | 732 |
| Bretagne | 698 |
The season is not the same everywhere
Each row is scaled to its own peak, so the comparison is between calendars rather than volumes. A row lighting up in summer is a forest-fire regime; a row lighting up in late winter signals agricultural burning.
| Area | Detections |
|---|---|
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine | Jan: 343 · Feb: 3,423 · Mar: 1,946 · Apr: 864 · May: 153 · Jun: 246 · Jul: 7,188 · Aug: 1,291 · Sep: 1,092 · Oct: 255 · Nov: 43 · Dec: 37 |
| Occitanie | Jan: 459 · Feb: 1,302 · Mar: 1,143 · Apr: 863 · May: 142 · Jun: 290 · Jul: 1,166 · Aug: 869 · Sep: 349 · Oct: 510 · Nov: 170 · Dec: 106 |
| Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur | Jan: 140 · Feb: 385 · Mar: 385 · Apr: 267 · May: 261 · Jun: 444 · Jul: 993 · Aug: 919 · Sep: 267 · Oct: 377 · Nov: 109 · Dec: 57 |
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | Jan: 62 · Feb: 256 · Mar: 420 · Apr: 479 · May: 55 · Jun: 203 · Jul: 739 · Aug: 317 · Sep: 149 · Oct: 114 · Nov: 28 · Dec: 19 |
| Corsica | Jan: 115 · Feb: 398 · Mar: 145 · Apr: 126 · May: 21 · Jun: 107 · Jul: 385 · Aug: 90 · Sep: 62 · Oct: 290 · Nov: 82 · Dec: 32 |
| Grand Est | Jan: 6 · Feb: 33 · Mar: 106 · Apr: 192 · May: 131 · Jun: 267 · Jul: 378 · Aug: 279 · Sep: 214 · Oct: 37 · Nov: 15 · Dec: 13 |
| Hauts-de-France | Jan: 17 · Feb: 20 · Mar: 45 · Apr: 105 · May: 282 · Jun: 281 · Jul: 478 · Aug: 177 · Sep: 146 · Oct: 48 · Nov: 14 · Dec: 8 |
| Centre — Val de Loire | Jan: 10 · Feb: 26 · Mar: 80 · Apr: 171 · May: 75 · Jun: 166 · Jul: 344 · Aug: 207 · Sep: 112 · Oct: 44 · Nov: 14 · Dec: 3 |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | Jan: 11 · Feb: 20 · Mar: 79 · Apr: 160 · May: 69 · Jun: 131 · Jul: 230 · Aug: 279 · Sep: 116 · Oct: 57 · Nov: 18 · Dec: 4 |
| Pays de la Loire | Jan: 4 · Feb: 12 · Mar: 43 · Apr: 180 · May: 59 · Jun: 95 · Jul: 206 · Aug: 229 · Sep: 103 · Oct: 43 · Nov: 15 · Dec: 5 |
Regions
| Area | Detections |
|---|---|
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 16,881 |
| Occitanie | 7,369 |
| Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur | 4,604 |
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 2,841 |
| Corsica | 1,853 |
| Grand Est | 1,671 |
| Hauts-de-France | 1,621 |
| Centre — Val de Loire | 1,252 |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | 1,174 |
| Pays de la Loire | 994 |
| Normandie | 732 |
| Bretagne | 698 |
| Ile-de-France | 582 |
Without a page of their own
These areas stay below the publication floor: too few detections, or too few distinct fires over five years, for a page to say anything beyond this number.
| Area | Detections |
|---|---|
| RUP FR — Régions Ultrapériphériques Françaises | 0 |
The largest recorded fires
The largest fires recorded here over five years — when each was first seen from orbit, and where.
3,046 detections · 45.7 km across · 1,574 MW
2,353 detections · 25.2 km across · 2,391 MW
769 detections · 18 km across · 1,675 MW
735 detections · 78.8 km across · 159 MW
705 detections · 79.7 km across · 94 MW
A first detection is not an ignition. A polar satellite passes only a few times a day, so a fire is seen on the next overpass — sometimes hours after it started, in a pixel about 375 m across. The point given is where it was first seen, not where it began. The span is the straight-line distance between detections: a floor on how far the fire reached, never a burned area. The named municipality is the one nearest the centre of the detections.
Aerial response in France
87 verified aircraft in the catalog, tracked over ADS-B when they transmit.
See the France registerThe questions people ask
- Where are the wildfires in France today?
- The region table below shows, for each of them, the satellite detections from the last 24 hours. Open a region to go down to the province, or go straight to the map, which shows every detection point with its time and its power.
- Which regions of France burn the most?
- The ranking below answers directly: regions are sorted by satellite detections over five years, most affected first. Each row leads to a page detailing its season, its worst years and its largest fires.
- When is the fire season in France?
- Over five years, July is the month with the most detections in France. But a national average hides opposite regimes: the Mediterranean coast burns in summer, while some inland regions peak in late winter because of agricultural burning.
- Can this map replace an official alert?
- No. Fire Maps shows observations and models, with their timestamps and their limits; it replaces neither the authorities, nor official alerts, nor incident command. In immediate danger, call the emergency services and follow official instructions.
How to read this page
A detection is not a fire. It is a pixel the satellite saw radiating like fire. One fire lights several pixels and comes back on every overpass: the unit counted here is evidence of heat, not the incident. That is why the page also gives a count of distinct fires, obtained by chaining detections that are close in space and in time.
The archive has gaps, and they are not random. A polar satellite passes a few times a day; under cloud it sees nothing; a fire smaller than the pixel can go unnoticed; a fire smouldering under canopy radiates little. An area with no detection is an area where nothing was seen — which is not the same as an area where nothing burned.
Two filters were applied, and this is what they removed. First NASA's own classification: 38,727 rows flagged as volcano, fixed ground source or offshore flare were discarded. Then persistence: 250 cells of about 500 metres lit in six different months across at least three distinct years behave like an industrial installation rather than a season; their 4,992 detections were removed.
Not everything that burns is a wildfire. Stubble burning, pastoral burning and the disposal of agricultural residue all produce perfectly real detections, often outside the summer season. A February or March peak on this page is almost always that.
The administrative outlines are generalized to a few hundred metres. A detection falling right on a boundary may therefore be counted on the neighbouring side. For a count of hot pixels the difference is immaterial; for a question of jurisdiction, use the official source.
Data sources
Archive built on July 31, 2026, covering 2020 to 2026.